LUCKNOW, May 16 -- The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) on Thursday ordered an urgent crackdown on rising illegal street encroachments and slow drain cleaning. In a high-level meeting chaired by municipal commissioner Gaurav Kumar, officials were pulled up for delays in cleanliness, encroachment removal, and monsoon preparedness. Kumar ordered immediate removal drives. All zones have been asked to re-survey vendors, identify illegal ones, and relocate them to proposed vending zones. htc...